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Appointment of the Committee to Nominate Overseers, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council were also announced. Chairman of the Committee will be Dr. Channing Frothingham '02, physician-in-chief at the Faulkner Hospital. The three other members are Frederick Winsor '93, of Concord, Charles C. Buell '23, of Milton, and Lawrence Howe '07, of Chicago...
...Story of Temple Drake (Paramount). Books as conspicuously concupiscent as William Faulkner's Sanctuary always challenge and worry Hollywood. The U. S. public will tolerate between book covers material which could never be exhibited in a theatre. Admirers of Sanctuary may therefore be disappointed in this transcription of it, but The Story of Temple. Drake-although amply punctuated by shots in which the screen goes black to conceal everything except Director Stephen Roberts' prudence-is more effective than might have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than...
...GREEN BOUGH-William Faulkner- Smith & Haas...
Many a man fancies himself most in a role that would surprise his friends. Clowns are notoriously tragic actors. Often prose-writers break out into a poetic itch, and if the rash is compelling enough, even break quarantine and show themselves in public. Author Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author...
Much possessed by Death, like Elizabethan John Webster but not to such a pitch, Faulkner's poetic tone of voice is more reminiscent of other poets, notably A. E. Housman. than of his own nightmarishly poetic prose...